It's the normal MO for most big publishers like Ubisoft. Kaz (Sony) most recently trimmed the fat and closed several studios but retained as many talented people he could and formed 2nd teams at their more successful ones. Of course it's just re-branding for the sake of extra revenue.

I guarantee you Sega does this in wake of Gear Box's Aliens disaster and pushes Creative Assembly's name all over the new Aliens game in PR releases; even though it's NOT made by the famous RTS dev but the chaps that gave us Viking.

This is better than if the game was actually made by DICE (in Sweden) to be honest. Danger close used to be known as EA Los Angeles, and when Pandemic studios shut down, a lot of the employees were hired by EA LA. So in other words, "DICE LA" has original SWBF developers in it's studio. So heres to hoping that they are actually making SWBF..

It's rather easy to find a game both on console and PC. Owned on 360 and played until I went PC. Now I play on PC. And, read the title, they are just re-branded. Check their track record through the years and name shifts . . . they are a very talented team who worked on a lot of great games.

They will most likely make an FPS (Battlefront, Jedi Knight, Republic Commando) as that was all Danger Close made so it could be decent or awful. Hopefully with DICE backing them up it will be decent with solid multiplayer.

"Battlefront as a title is too similar to Battlefield and EA won’t want to confuse people over two of its own releases. Battlefront by another name (Republic Commando, perhaps?) is still very feasible though." - are u fukcing kidding me...

Like fermcr said above, they're just trying to associate the studio with the real DICE so consumers who don't know the difference will assume Danger Close's games are from the same devs as their favorites (Battlefield), or of the same quality.

Danger Close (and its numerous merges/name changes) have made a myriad of games although most were not fantastic. I enjoyed aome of their console rts games (Lotr more than C&C) and other than stale story/setting of recent MoH games I thought they were okay (whole terrorist/middle east is boring and overused at this point IMO so really need something special).

Hopefully they can make a decent SW shooter or rts as it is a much better setting to work with.